confusing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈfjuːzɪŋ/

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Adjective

confusing (comparative more confusing, superlative most confusing)

1. difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.

   Several sections in that book are really confusing.

   • 2017 May 16, Jacqueline Howard, “‘Healthy’ foods have most of us confused, survey finds”, in CNN‎:

     The Cleveland Clinic’s Sukol thinks the word “healthy” is confusing and should be replaced with the term “nourishing,” as some processed foods have been marketed as “healthy.”

Synonyms

• muddlesome
• mistakable
• misleading
• Thesaurus:confusing

Derived terms

• confusingly
• confusingness
• more confusing than a Rubik's cube

Related terms

• confuse
• confused
• confusion

Translations

difficult to understand

Arabic: مُرْبِك (murbik) Belarusian: заблы́таны (zablýtany) Bulgarian: объркващ (bg) (obǎrkvašt) Catalan: confús (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 撲朔迷離 / 扑朔迷离 (zh) (pūshuòmílí), 含糊不清的 (hánhú bù qīng de) Czech: matoucí Danish: forvirrende Dutch: verwarrend (nl), niet duidelijk, chaotisch (nl) Esperanto: implikanta, konfuzanta Faroese: ørkymlandi Finnish: hämmentävä (fi) French: complexe (fr), déroutant (fr), confusant (fr) Galician: confuso Georgian: გაუგებარი (gaugebari) German: verwirrend (de), irreführend (de), missverständlich (de), unübersichtlich (de) Hebrew: מבלבל m (m'valbél) Hindi: भ्रामक (hi) (bhrāmak) Icelandic: ruglingslegur (is) Italian: che confonde, poco chiaro, confusionario (it) m Japanese: 紛らわしい (ja) (まぎらわしい, magirawashii) Kapampangan: macabaligo (traditional), makabaligo (modern), makalitu Khmer: ច្រឡំ (km) (jrɑlɑm) Malay: mengelirukan Mirandese: cunfuso, ambrulhado, ambaranhado Norwegian: Bokmål: forvirrende Nynorsk: forvirrende Polish: mylący, zagmatwany (pl) Portuguese: confuso (pt), embrulhado (pt), embaraçado (pt) Romanian: confuz (ro), încurcător, zăpăcitor (ro), haotic (ro) Russian: сбива́ющий с то́лку (sbivájuščij s tólku), запу́танный (ru) (zapútannyj) Spanish: confuso (es), enredado (es) m Swedish: förvirrande (sv) Tagalog: nakakalito Turkish: kafa karıştırıcı

Verb

confusing

1. present participle and gerund of confuse